The complaint, filed in federal district court in Florida, seeks damages for the "prolonged arbitrary detention and torture" of Miguel Angel Corbacho Daudinot, who is still in Cuba, and refers to Puig and his mother as "informants" to the government.

Corbacho Daudinot's lawyers are arguing the U.S. court has jurisdiction in the case under the Tourture Victim Protection Act of 1991, which permits civil cases to be filed in the U.S. against individuals who commit torture while acting in an official capacity for a foreign nation, wrote Hernandez.

Corbacho Daudinot was convicted of human trafficking in 2010—a trial Puig and his mother both testified in. The two testified that Corbacho Daudinot was plotting Puig's defection from Cuba, but Corbacho Daudinot denies ever offering to help.